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I am not an entomologist. I have no formal training in the world of spiders. In fact, I have no real love for spiders.

Spiders have always been more of a curiosity to me, but just not enough to turn them into a career or go to school for. I forget which year to be specific, but I think it was in 2009 when I saw a spider crawling across my floor. I caught the spider in a jar and realizing it wasn't like any I had ever noticed before, I was curious as to what it was, so I looked it up on-line. Two hours later, after sifting through too much useless information, I finally decided it was a Nursery Web Spider and I was frustrated to hell and back with the fact there was nothing I could find that had what spiders were in Michigan (Where I live). I decided right then that I would create something on-line where others can go to find what spiders were in Michigan. And so I started a blog called Michigan Spiders.

I added the Nursery Spider and every time I found a new spider, I added it as well. With looking each spider up, I was amazed at how little I really knew about spiders. About a year after the blog started, I got my first email from someone with a picture of a spider, asking me if I could help them identify it. A short time later I got another, then another. In Michigan Spiders third year, I was answering anywhere from 6 to 12 emails every night.

Michigan Spiders was started for no other reason than to help others and as it grew I was proud of what I created. I also realized it was a lot of work for very little return and as I struggled through some very hard times, Michigan Spiders had to take a back seat to dealing with other problems.

2015 seemed to be a bad year for spiders and I only got a couple emails a night and often did not get any. Which was not a bad thing as I worked a lot of overtime the entire year for the first time in my life and didn't have a lot of time to spare. As 2016 rolled in, I found myself on 40 hours and I decided it was time to update everything and rather than continue the blog, I would create an actual site. I also decided that for what little the ads brought in, I might as well make the site good for all 50 states rather than limit it to one state. And so, USA Spiders was born.

I do hope you like the site and I would appreciate any feedback. If there is anything about it you do not like, please let me know. One cant fix problems if he doesn't know they exist after all.

As I mentioned in the beginning, I am not a true expert. I am not an entomologist. I have simply learned a lot while looking up spiders since 2009. I will always try my best to give you the most accurate reply I can and if I ever realize I make a mistake, I will try to recontact you to let you know.

I will ask you to be patient with me at times as this is not my job and I have family to care for. So at times this will take a back seat to my real job, but I will always reply to emails as soon as I can.

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